To Prussia With Love

Roger

Boyes

‘We-have-a-house-in-the-country?'

Lena nodded solemnly. 

‘Where?' I almost shouted briefly rattling the table. ‘No wait don't tell me  it's Todi in Umbria right? The old manor house the one with the lemon groves!'

‘Alt-Globnitz.'

‘Alt-Globnitz?' Suddenly I felt cold.

‘Alt-Globnitz. It's a really nice place. You will love it.'

In a desperate attempt to save his relationship with girlfriend Lena and take a break from the world of journalism Germany correspondent Roger Boyes agrees to make a great escape from the easy urban lifestyle of Berlin and decamp to the countryside. Roger has hopes for southern Italy but Lena has inherited a run-down old schloss in deepest darkest Brandenburg.

Needing a form of income they decide to set up a B and B with a British theme. Enter unhelpful Harry and his Trinidadian chef cousin a mad Scot to advise them on re-branding Brandenburg some suicidal frogs and a posse of mad tourists. It all culminates naturally in a cricket match between the Brits and the Germans on an old Russian minefield. Farce meets romance in this follow-up to the successful A Year in the Scheisse.